I WANT to like it, I paid for it, and I have been a heavy Office user since 1995. It just baffles me why it isn't pixel per pixel / function per function identical to it's Windows counterpart. Why on earth is it different at all? And not as robust? And slow to launch?

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I WANT to like it, I paid for it, and I have been a heavy Office user since 1995. It just baffles me why it isn't pixel per pixel / function per function identical to it's Windows counterpart. Why on earth is it different at all? And not as robust? And slow to launch?

It launches fast for me, faster than it did on my last pc. At appears fine for me as well.

Try removing Vivaldi from your font library/folder, it was a previously supported typeface on Office 2011 (it comes in the program fonts during install) but for some reason it's not playing well with ML